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Weir On Buying a Horse

This spin-off from the long-running BBC Radio 3 series Voices has a lot going for it, and it would be...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2007

Mendelssohn String Symphonies

The Concerto Cologne gave delightful performances of three of Mendelssohn’s early string symphonies, Nos. 8-10, on Teldec (12/94); five more...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1996

Karita Mattila Opera Arias

Possibly a Walter Legge might have been able to do something about it. He was said to have given to...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

The Wise Virgins

These vintage Boult performances are captured in irrepressibly vivid, mono sound from the first half of the 1950s. In point...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1997

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

Despite several abortive projects, it was not until Roger Norrington's London performance and new recording of the Symphonie fantastique that...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1989

Charpentier Te Deum

It is astonishing to hear a modern French group play Charpentier’s most famous work almost conventionally, with only occasional discreet...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 4/2006

M. Haydn: Symphonies

I listened with great pleasure, as well as surprise that such fascinating symphonies should never have come my way before....

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Bruch Violin Concerto No 1; Scottish Fantasy

Aaron Rosand is now in his seventies but his marathon recording career continues in full flow. Since he began to...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 8, 14 & 23

These three Beethoven sonatas, totalling 58 minutes, have all been digitally re-mastered for this CD; i.e. they have to be...

Reviewed in issue 5/1984

Ferguson Choral and Orchestral Works

Though Ferguson's output embraces a mere 20 published scores (he is 85 this year, though he stopped composing some 30...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 4/1993

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